When walking, just walk. When sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble.

Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.

Work diligently. Diligently. Work patiently and persistently. Patiently and persistently. And you're bound to be successful. Bound to be successful.

Appearances are mind, mind itself is emptiness, emptiness itself is spontaneous presence.

When you find your place where you are, practice occurs, actualizing the fundamental point.

The nature of mind is like a mirror. It is not affected by whatever appears in it, yet it never fails to reflect everything perfectly.

The difference between buddhas and sentient beings is that buddhas recognize their nature while sentient beings fail to recognize it.

The development of wisdom requires both study and practice, both learning and direct experience.

The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities.

The practice of meditation is like tuning an instrument. Too tight, and the strings break. Too loose, and they won't play.

When you note pain, you are not trying to make it go away. You are trying to understand its true nature.

If I had any position, I would thereby have a flaw. But since I have no position, I alone am without flaw.

Enlightenment is not about becoming something special, but about realizing what we already are.

Just as the wise do not take a mirage to be water, nor an echo to be a voice, so the enlightened do not take the world to be real.

We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things.

When mindfulness is weak, defilements are strong; when mindfulness is strong, defilements are weak.

When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love.

Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.

The nature of mind is not something we need to achieve - it's something we need to recognize.

The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.

The mind is like a wild monkey, jumping here and there. But through meditation, we learn to see whatever arises in our mind with more spaciousness and clarity.

The obstacle is the path.

The willingness to empty ourselves and then seek our true nature is an expression of great and courageous love.

The Four Noble Truths are not mere doctrinal propositions but a framework for understanding and transforming our lives.

Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.

When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new.

The ultimate source of a happy life is warm-heartedness. This means extending to others the kind of concern we have for ourselves.

If you love someone, the greatest gift you can give them is your presence.

Happiness is a skill that can be developed like playing an instrument or learning to read.

The highest truth cannot be taught except through the conventional truth.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

Real peace comes from seeing things as they really are, not as we want them to be.